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• Gone With the Wind
  Gone With the Wind

  noun

  a novel (1936) by Margaret Mitchell.
• gone with the wind
  gone with the wind

  Disappeared, gone forever, as in With these unforeseen expenses, our profits are gone with the wind. This phrase became famous as the title of Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel, which alludes to the Civil War's causing the disappearance of a Southern way of life. It mainly serves as an intensifier of gone.

Gone With the Wind

American  

[wind] / wɪnd /

noun

1. a novel (1936) by Margaret Mitchell.

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Gone With the Wind Cultural  

1. (1936) A phenomenally popular novel by the American author Margaret Mitchell. Set in Georgia in the period of the Civil War, it tells of the three marriages of the central character, Scarlett O'Hara, and of the devastation caused by the war.

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gone with the wind Idioms  

1. Disappeared, gone forever, as in With these unforeseen expenses, our profits are gone with the wind. This phrase became famous as the title of Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel, which alludes to the Civil War's causing the disappearance of a Southern way of life. It mainly serves as an intensifier of gone.

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The film version of Gone With the Wind, which premiered in 1939, is one of the most successful films ever made.

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It was also reflected in popular culture, notably in Margaret Mitchell's hugely successful 1936 novel "Gone With the Wind" and its 1939 film adaptation.

From Salon • Sep. 17, 2022

On 28 December 2021 Mr Watts, from Haselbury, watched the 1,000th film - Gone With the Wind - which he had never seen before.

From BBC • May 29, 2022

Open’s second round: She finished "Gone With the Wind."

From Fox News • Sep. 2, 2021

“I’ll think about it tomorrow”: Gone With the Wind and An Inconvenient Truth.

From Washington Post • Aug. 20, 2020

“I guess I kind of remind you of Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wind, huh, Lillian?”

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy